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VMworld kicks off this week in San Francisco. I happen to know a few loyal VMware IT professionals, and the event is clearly a very exciting time of the year for them - an opportunity to meet other fellow enthusiasts, as well as to learn more about new releases from VMware. But I wonder if they would...

Hey everyone, Thought I would share an article or two from the Ask Premier Field Engineering Platform Team Blog . I think everyone love's checklists that you can just run through to make sure you didn't miss anything and that your environment is good to go, right? Well, how about this, Windows...

Hi, this is Christa Anderson, Community Lead for the Windows Server and System Center Group. As we wrap up the Windows Server 2012 Community roadshow this month, I’d like to thank our many MVPs who supported it. They’re great speakers and very knowledgeable, and through their continued efforts...

Hey everyone, This is some pretty exciting stuff being brought to you by our Microsoft & VMware virtualization experts Symon Perriman , Jeff Woolsey and Matt McSpirit. I know that it may be difficult to block out an entire day for this training, but here is what you can do if you can't make it...

Hi, this is Christa Anderson, Community Lead for the Windows Server and System Center Group. We’ve got just a little bit more than a month left in the roadshow but we’re still going strong. Register now for an event in Berlin, Germany on January 21 Register now for an event in Dubai...

Hi again, here is your weekly update on upcoming events for the Windows Server 2012 Community Roadshow from my colleague Christa Anderson. We are super pumped about this series of Roadshow Events and this has been a super valuable event series for our customers and partners. If you want to learn more...

Unlocking Network Flexibility, Efficiency, and Multi-tenancy for the Cloud When we talked with customers about their datacenters, we found that virtualization was not fully living up to its potential. Customers readily acknowledged the benefits of machine virtualization, but they wanted even more IT...

We’ve all heard about the agility that server virtualization delivers. However, our conversations with people in the trenches made it clear that the full potential of virtualization remains frustratingly beyond their grasp. In particular, the lack of agile networking limits the agility you can...

Today’s blog concludes the discussion of Hyper-V & Scale Up Virtual machines. Jeff Woolsey, a Principal Program Manager on the Windows Server team, wrote this blog. Virtualization Nation, In the last blog , we discussed how Windows Server “8” introduces NUMA for virtual...

The thing I love most about Microsoft is our focus on customers. Prior to coming to Microsoft, I spent the majority of my career working for companies that competed against Microsoft. Microsoft would release a new product into a market and sometimes they would nail it immediately and other times they...

Take a look at Bill Laing's blog, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft's Server and Cloud business, to get an overview of the next release of Windows Server codenamed Windows Server 8. Read Bill's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog .

The Microsoft TechEd Twitter Army is looking for recruits to twitter off the show floor during our premier TechEd event running May 16-19 in Atlanta. If you’re going to the show and want your opinions heard, be sure to check in at the Social Media area in the Microsoft Server & Cloud Platform...

Shortly after the acquisition of Calista Technologies in early 2008, my family and I packed up our things and started the drive from the beautiful but rainy Northwest to sunny Silicon Valley. I was about to embark on the adventure of leading the integration of technology and people that ultimately resulted...

If you're looking to get started implementing a Microsoft private cloud infrastructure, the Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track program can offer invaluable help by delivering pre-validated reference architectures. The Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track solutions are currently being offered by 6 Microsoft hardware partners...

We in Windows Server are sorry to report a disturbing trend among IT professionals. Ever since Windows Server 2008 R2 was first released as a public beta, and Best Practices Analyzer for Windows Server roles was first available, we've been getting some alarming dispatches from the IT management front...

I have been talking with a number of customers, CSOs, CIOs and industry professionals over the past few weeks and I realized that the availability and benefits of using the Server Core option of Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 was not as widely known as I think it should be. Windows Server...

Microsoft recently worked with MarketTools's Zoom Panel Tech to conduct an online survey of 2000 IT professionals about if, how and why they use solution providers (IT consultants, resellers, system integrators and hosted service providers.) The results verify what we've heard repeatedly from customers...

The acronym stands for Release to Manufacturing, and it means this latest release of Windows Server 2008 R2 is now blessed by engineering as ready for the manufacturing process. We're talking final code. Sun shining, birds singing, children dancing in the streets. With evaluation software available...

I am pleased to introduce a new set of interactive web tools designed specifically for our infrastructure partners. The Partner Website Widgets help improve online customer experience on our partner websites. They communicate a core set of business value related to services that our partners deliver...

Here we are at the RC milestone of Windows Server 2008 R2 , which usually indicates that we've hit the home stretch and we're marching straight ahead to RTM. Generally that's nothing new, but get set to smile, because this time we're not just marching home, we're adding new features, too! So in addition...

The beta is now available to manage WS08 R2 Hyper-V and MS Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. Check out RakeshM's blog post . Rakesh is the principal group program manager for SCVMM, and can answer any questions you might have that he doesn't address. If you're looking for brevity, see Larry's post over at the...

For those of you who’ve enabled the Hyper-V role in WS08. It has been determined that a certificate error can occur resulting in the inability to start or connect to virtual machines running on Windows Server 2008 or Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008. The Hyper-V virtualization host and the existing virtual...

Do you remember the tale of the Windows Server 2008 “Lone Server” ? Maybe it was read to you as a bedtime story as a change from “Mommy, Why Is There a Server in the House?” There he was, this poor Windows Server 2003 server, all alone in a server farm of Windows Server 2008 machines. Out-of-date. Out...

Looks like many of you are saving big money with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. And today we announced that, on average, it's $470,000 per customer per year. Not bad at all and very gratifying to see. Here's just one example provided today: Saxo Bank had an average physical server utilization of...

Hi, I'm Jerry Melnick, ch ief technology officer at Marathon Technologies. Today we announced an expanded development and marketing agreement with Microsoft that underscores industry recognition of the growing need to eliminate downtime for your most important applications. Working together, Marathon...